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Lot 188S2

A matched pair of 12-bore sidelock ejector guns by Boss & Co., no. 4761 & 5735
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case

1 December 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £11,400 inc. premium

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A matched pair of 12-bore sidelock ejector guns by Boss & Co., no. 4761 & 5735

The toplevers, ribs and forend-tips numbered '1' and '2' in gold, the rounded action-bodies with best bouquet and foliate-scroll engraving, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, chequered front-triggers, rolled-edge trigger-guards, highly-figured stocks with wood extensions, the barrels with sunken ribs, the No. 1 gun engraved Boss & Co., 73 St. James's Street, London; the No. 2 gun engraved Boss & Co., 13, Dover Street, Piccadilly, London, W.
Weight 5lb. 13½oz. (No. 1) and 5lb. 15½oz. (No. 2), 14½in. pulls, 28in. barrels, approx. cyl. & ½ choke (No. 1) and I.C. & ½ choke (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, London nitro reproof (No. 1 right barrel-thickness marginal, left barrel-thickness below recommended minimum, No. 2 right barrel-thickness below recommended minimum)
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case

Footnotes

The makers have kindly confirmed that gun No. 4761 was completed in 1899 and that gun No. 5735 was built to match and completed in 1910

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